The articulate Vice President Joe Biden thread

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how the fuck do you figure?

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:05 PM (51 minutes ago)

iirc biden has been the good angel in obama's ear (opposite hilary) on a few key issues, not saying he'll be great but if i had to choose i'd take him

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/07/the-corruption-of-joe-biden/

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An oasis of clarity in a world of blurry people. Vote for Joe.

"While Biden has shifted on some drug issues, he remains a staunch defender of his record on crime, even as Bill and Hillary Clinton have expressed their regret for the consequences of the 1994 crime bill and other anti-drug policies.

Joe Biden, in other words, is the Democratic face of the drug war."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/joe_biden_presidential_run_why_it_s_a_bad_idea.html

Joe being Joe

Great campaign photo there.

The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe#.lb4PROAJz

p4reene:

"The crime law—which Joe Biden was still calling the '1994 Biden Crime Bill' earlier this year—expanded the scope of the racist prison-industrial complex and helped balloon America’s incarcerated population. The bankruptcy bill was one of the most nakedly corporatist and anti-consumer pieces of legislation of the entire George W. Bush administration. (It also had the secondary effect of exacerbating the subprime mortgage crisis.)"

http://gawker.com/some-things-joe-biden-could-do-instead-of-running-for-p-1737899784

Connor Kilpatrick
‏@ckilpatrick
Rich liberals at the Oscars go wild for Biden, the man who made it almost impossible for regular people to discharge debt in bankruptcy

@DougHenwood
By the way, at the time, Eliz Warren told me the bill was written by a law firm for the credit card industry.

why did everybody stand up? are you supposed to? the way broadcast was edited seemed like Louis Gossett Jr. was first to stand so I figured maybe it was old school etiquette...

Yeah, the way they all stood for Elia Kazan.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/you-are-a-warrior-joe-biden-writes-moving-open-letter-in-support-of-stanford-rape-survivor/

Manu Raju (CNN)
‏@mkraju
Just asked Biden if he's concerned w Bernie backers at DNC; said Ds should "show a little class" and let em be angry

@ggreenwald
Glad to see Biden say this. The bullying demands that all Sanders supporters instantly fall in line & cheer is gross

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/757972317456695296

"Instantly"

like since Super Tuesday

https://twitter.com/VP/status/761253705341480962

Onion Biden and real Biden are now one

http://deadsp.in/wtdIBTU

“’Because I’m a billionaire I can do things other people can’t.’ What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make,” Biden said while campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. “The press always ask me, don’t I wish I was debating him? No, I wish we were in high school, and I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish."

Onion Biden and real Biden are now one

http://deadsp.in/wtdIBTU

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this was EXACTLY what I came in this thread to post with EXACTLY the same sentiment

But there's also this Joe Biden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-last-stand-convincing-democrats-not-to-give-up-on-the-white-working-class-voters-fueling-trump/2016/10/21/d4230d4a-7a94-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html

As his motorcade barreled into a high-dollar fundraiser in this wealthy St. Louis suburb recently, Vice President Biden noticed the firehouse next door. He told his aides to cut the fundraiser short a few minutes so that he and the Democrat running for Senate here could visit with the firefighters on the way out. These were his people, and for more than 10 minutes Biden talked to the fire company about what they do and how members of his own family had been saved by their work.

“Hey, I’ve used you guys several times, and it was great,” Biden told the crew, according to Clayton Fire Chief Mark Thorp. The fire crew was stunned by the gesture, Thorp said. “He just as easily could’ve gotten in his car and waved.”

Meanwhile: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-biden-secretary-of-state-230428

Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president

Guys, let's try to keep this between just us and Politico, okay? Oh, I can't wait to see the look on Joe's face when she springs the news!

I'm sure Jill will let the cat out of the bag before it's time.

As the State Dept becomes less powerful in relation to Defense, maybe affability and a 150 watt smile are roughly the right tools for the job. But the main talent HRC might be thinking about here may be his loyalty. He'd never go behind her back to slag her off to journalists because of an internal power struggle.

Plus another four years of Onion Biden stories, only this time with datelines from around the world

My LOL of the week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjx-1gE9J7U

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15171309_1126455830737269_7256971130739091606_n.jpg?oh=2a416a871f2878cb69c77147e7ec6060&oe=58C7F437

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*wXcs7rUo0i93g4oTqi8cxA.jpeg

from

https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/behind-the-lens-2016-year-in-photographs-9e2c8733bbb3#.n48snl9n8

Beyond all of the most obvious awfulness of the next four years, I keep being reminded that we won't be seeing anyone from the executive branch just acting like a normal fucking human being who interacts with other human beings normally. Spray Trump with a super soaker and he'll just tweet about how sad and disrespectful that eight-year-old was.

...and Pence would sponsor the kid for electroshock.

well, yeah

The water stain on Pence's shirt would be the image of Christ. Amen.

and really, SuperSoaker optics are really important, like FLOTUS singing in James Corden's car

Someone on Reddit: Obama should resign a few days early just so Joe gets to be the 45th President for the next week.

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change we can believe in

It'll be on Snopes in five .. four ..

Zombies and Moustaches and Biden

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/12/509545778/in-surprise-send-off-president-obama-awards-biden-presidential-medal-of-freedom

you beautiful old bastard you

@DennisThePerrin
Only a decaying imperialist culture could venerate Joe Biden. There are no take backs.

@mrsinisterlefty
Come on, the man gifted Clarence Thomas to America. He deserves thanks from a grateful nation.

Godspeed to you and to Dennis in your search for the politician whose unimpeachable purity will lead us all into a new golden age filled with joy and prosperity and only the finest of linens and marble columns of such fine craftsmanship that to behold them is to weep.

notice how Morbs isn't quoting Charles Pierce (who was appropriately nuanced) this time.

what are some good biden portmanteaus and morbsian wordplays

joe lie-den

joe corporate buyden

those aren't very good though

glad yer down w/ Clarence, Old Lunch

(and presumably credit-card-co whoredom)

shove "purity" where bad improv goes

Your career?